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Patricia “Trish” Droogsma taught in Santa Rosa County for going on 37 years. This year, she was Santa Rosa High School’s Teacher of the Year—for the second time.

Unfortunately, after a battle with cancer, she passed away on March 2, 2022. Her memorial service took place on April 7, 2022.

The Gulf Breeze High School drama department put on The SpongeBob Musical last weekend at the Pensacola State College Ashmore Auditorium. Students filled the stage in colorful costumes of the animated Nickelodeon series.

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For many young athletes, their biggest goal is to compete at the highest level, but what happens if they don’t make it.

According to a fact sheet from the National Federation of State High School Association, only six percent of high school student-athletes go on to compete in college and only two percent of those that play in college make it professionally.

At the end of a dead-end road in Holley, the largest known collection of artifacts from the turpentine industry is kept in a tidy clay-colored building behind Raymon Melvin’s home.

Melvin, whose dad, granddads and great-granddads all trace their roots to the industry, started his collection when he was 22.